St. Helena. A red flag warning for pre much all of the bay area. The big event is tonight. It is essentially going on right now the wind will peak, most likely. The model pushing forward, lets get to about now. This really tells the story. 11 00, 12 00. The contour is getting a little brighter. It starts, weeks, and comes back down. Between now, 4 00 and 5 00, the wind will be pretty robust. That is the main concern. A secondary event shows up on tuesday, but it is not as robust. Mount diablo, 67 Miles Per Hour, mount st. Helena, current numbers at 50 Miles Per Hour. Bill, thank you. Hundreds of thousands of homes are in the dark after pg e cut power. A total 6000 customers are expected to lose their power. So far this weather event is unfolding as they predicted. Because of the anticipated strong wind, the utility began to shut down power. Shes unsure if she can work on monday i work from home. If my wifi is out, if it is not on yet, that could be a big problem. Reporter even more of
Mostly Clear Conditions a little bit of patchy fog but not much to get in your way look at the shot, this is our east bay. Shonda our camera on top of the Berkeley Hills we could see all the way to the bay just a Beautiful Day in store for you temperature were looking pretty good out of the house right now 50s to 60s and low but theres a mid 70 now on the board antioch youre currently at 75 degrees 70 in concord 66 oakland and 58 right here in San Francisco. Temperatures are only going to heat up even more so into the afternoon, well have all the details coming up in my full weather check a little bit later back to the news, thanks ally and lets start with the coronavirus california becoming now the first state in the nation. To exceed half a million covid cases. We are so much worse off now than we were when this whole thing really blew up in march, yeah, hard pill to swallow just this morning top doctors are warning the u. S. Is in. What they consider to be a new phase of the pandemi
Morning news at 9. And happy monday to you im darya folsom and were going to check the headlines in a minute, but first want to take a peek at the weather and the late risers have a lot more sun in the early risers had this morning a backup yeah, thats right sorry were seeing nothing but sunshine everywhere across the b a a bay area. We had a real quick clearing this morning and in fact as the camera just here downtown san jose looking on the sunshine behind me, lots of blue skies were going to see a Beautiful Day in store for you no matter where youre going to be a temperatures out the door right now already mild to warm in some spots antioch youre currently at 78 69 in downtown oakland 70 degrees in downtown san jose 62 right here in San Francisco. But warmer temperatures are on the way ill have all the details coming up in that area. Thanks a lot of back and now to the latest with the pandemic california has become the first state in the country to exceed half a million covid cases.
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Impeachment trial. So what does this mean for the president . And the support within his own party . All that plus, stunning death, rising 34yearold star at espn who died of pneumonia after covering the ohio state michigan game ready, set, return the postholiday rush to exchange those Unwanted Gifts starts this morning. What you need to know before heading to the stores or the post office. And christmas surprise fans happy to see alex trebek making a public appearance amidst his ongoing battle with cancer today, thursday, december 26th, 2019. 2019 with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this thursday morning thank you for joining us Kristen Welker in for savannah how was your Christmas Christmas was fantastic spent some time with my parents and my husband how about you . My kids are at an age now that i can see christmas through their eyes it was magical special morning. I bet it was. Speaking of christmas, lets start there.